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bcache: clarify free/available/unused space

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Don't describe bcache_available_percent as free space but as
non-writeback space.  Describe priority_stats in more detail
and point to that for total bcache occupation.

Signed-off-by: Gabriel de Perthuis <g2p.code+bcache@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
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Gabriel 2013-04-24 19:51:02 +02:00 committed by Kent Overstreet
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@ -319,7 +319,10 @@ cache<0..n>
Symlink to each of the cache devices comprising this cache set.
cache_available_percent
Percentage of cache device free.
Percentage of cache device which doesn't contain dirty data, and could
potentially be used for writeback. This doesn't mean this space isn't used
for clean cached data; the unused statistic (in priority_stats) is typically
much lower.
clear_stats
Clears the statistics associated with this cache
@ -423,8 +426,11 @@ nbuckets
Total buckets in this cache
priority_stats
Statistics about how recently data in the cache has been accessed. This can
reveal your working set size.
Statistics about how recently data in the cache has been accessed.
This can reveal your working set size. Unused is the percentage of
the cache that doesn't contain any data. Metadata is bcache's
metadata overhead. Average is the average priority of cache buckets.
Next is a list of quantiles with the priority threshold of each.
written
Sum of all data that has been written to the cache; comparison with